Missouri’s Department of Transportation is planning to shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 in Midtown St. Louis for roughly a year starting in fall 2027 — and the state agency is inviting commuters to weigh in at a public meeting Thursday evening.
MoDOT is hosting the open house between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the City Foundry. During the meeting, the agency’s engineers and planners will discuss preliminary plans to shut down about a mile of the interstate headed toward Illinois between Vandeventer and Compton avenues.
“It’s a big deal,” said Jen Wade, MoDOT’s engineer for St. Louis. “There’s a lot of stuff going on, and it’s time to really start talking to the public about the details of this project in particular.”…